Sunday evenings are almost always pretty quiet around here. After a day in church we rather enjoy a quiet evening here at home. It’s also been a fairly uneventful week as well. We had a bit of weather on Thursday, but that went away without leaving any snow behind. This has been a strange winter with no snow. Our eight-horsepower super-delux snowblower hasn’t even been started this winter. Maybe that’s what is keeping the snow away.

Yesterday I needed to be at the temple in Idaho Falls at 5:15 to attend a temple session. Today was Ward Conference for the three wards that meet in the building on South Grant Street. The wards involved in Ward Conference along with the Stake leaders are invited to a special temple session the evening before conference, so Nina and I planned to spend some time in Idaho Falls ahead of the temple session.

The plan was fairly simple. There was an RV show in Idaho Falls so we decided that we would stop there first and look at the RV’s on display. That would take a couple of hours and then we’d go over to the new Olive Garden restaurant for a late lunch (or early dinner). Then a quick stop at Deseret Book for some pictures that Nina needed for the girls at the prison. We’d then go over to the temple about 4:45 p.m. for the 5:15 chapel session.

Lots of slips between cups and lips on this one. First, we were ready to go in good time, so we left about 10:30 to drive to Idaho Falls. We got to the RV Show about 11:30 a.m. Then that turned out to be a trailer show. There were only four RV’s on display and none of them were interesting to us. The show was all trailers, fifth-wheels, and toy haulers. In talking to one of the sales guys I learned that in Idaho Falls they don’t sell very many RV’s. People already have pickup trucks, so there’s a lot of business for fifth-wheel and regular trailers. Further, he told me, lots of folks have dirt bikes and ATV’s, so combination trailer / toy haulers are very popular. None of that is interesting to us, however.

By noon we were finished with the show. We would have left then, but as we were headed for the door we ran into a family that we knew when we were living in Chardon, Ohio. A couple of their kids are the same age as some of ours. We had a nice visit with them and learned that they have been living in Idaho Falls for several years now.

So then what to do? It was 12:30 p.m. and we had four hours to kill. We decided to do lunch. There is a new Olive Garden restaurant in Idaho Falls and we had a gift certificate. We got there to find a long line. We didn’t have anything else to do, so we waited. When we finished lunch about 2, the line was much longer. This is a very popular restaurant right now in Idaho Falls. We now had two hours and a half to kill. We went to Deseret Book and Nina picked up her items. Still two hours left.

We went to Barnes and Noble. I picked up a book I wanted and a couple of CD’s. More than an hour left. There’s a Best Buy close by the book store so I went over there and picked up a new iPod connector for my car. We finally had frittered away the afternoon and drove to the temple.

We had a delightful session. Some friends invited us to go for desert afterwards as he had a couple of computer questions. We went to Applebee’s in Idaho Falls to find that the wait was more than a half hour. Well, there’s an Applebee’s in Pocatello and we were sure there was no waiting in Pocatello, so we met in Pocatello and had some decadent desert and a nice visit. Some days go quite differently than planned!

I ran across a somewhat strange motor scooter in Idaho Falls. Three pictures are posted in the picture album.